Hacker News: Gare

New comment by Gare in "EFF is leaving X"

Gare — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:20:36 +0000

10 years ago Wayland was in much worse state. It started being good in the last few years, though some features are still lacking.

New comment by Gare in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

Gare — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:46:54 +0000

> and I don't think I know any pop stars with that background off the top of my head.

But Romania gave us the Dragostea din tei (Numa-numa song :)

New comment by Gare in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

Gare — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:33:57 +0000

In Croatia only Zagreb got changed to 10 000 (because capital), the rest stayed the same.

New comment by Gare in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Gare — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:31:57 +0000

Exactly, the threat of using nukes needs to be credible in order to work as a deterrence.

New comment by Gare in "Art of Roads in Games"

Gare — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:40:24 +0000

> And they are also… a math nightmare. Differential geometry. Integrals. Oh my… Which is probably why most games don’t even dare.

Wonder if cubic parabola (used by some railways, and visually near indistinguishable from clothoid) has easier maths.

New comment by Gare in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

Gare — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:53:59 +0000

This collision happened precisely because of unfortunate circumstance that break in the rail and derailment happened just before the switch leading to the opposite track. Without the "help" of the switch, carriages of the first train likely wouldn't have invaded the second track.

New comment by Gare in "The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car"

Gare — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:04:45 +0000

Well, they could add speakers that make vroom-vroom noises.

New comment by Gare in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

Gare — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:01:38 +0000

The Falcons have all three engines tail mounted, so not the same "type" of trijet as MD-11.

New comment by Gare in "Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security"

Gare — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:10:35 +0000

AFAIK it should be a different system because the car asks the key first (same system as Keyless GO).

New comment by Gare in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

Gare — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 07:31:27 +0000

Well, AI is plain wrong. Fuel cutoff switches on Airbus are in the same position as in Boeing planes, below the throttle.

New comment by Gare in "Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026"

Gare — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 05:07:08 +0000

Technically, 2 EU countries: Greece and Cyprus.

New comment by Gare in "Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi"

Gare — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:27:49 +0000

True, but that EU regulation is based on the ground truth of much less spacious roads and cities.

New comment by Gare in "Riding high in Germany on the world's oldest suspended railway"

Gare — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:52:53 +0000

You might consider it an eyesore, but the river is hardly ruined by it.

New comment by Gare in "Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python"

Gare — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:34:50 +0000

I fully agree with that. Just a bit disappointed that Python is not even considering to fix/replace it's problematic datetime library (as far as I know). Excellent third-party library is good, but an excellent standard library is even better!

New comment by Gare in "Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python"

Gare — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:13:25 +0000

Fortunately, JS is getting Temporal, which will be great. No such thing on the horizon for Python yet.

New comment by Gare in "Nebula Sans"

Gare — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 08:31:46 +0000

Not only that, some fonts have a vast number of tweaks available: https://rsms.me/inter/#features

New comment by Gare in "Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport"

Gare — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:21:00 +0000

Railway crossings are not especially deadly if you're a train passenger. Most deaths are from train-on-train collisions or overspeed derailments.

New comment by Gare in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

Gare — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:34:34 +0000

All newly sold vehicles in EU need to have either reversing camera or sensors starting from July 7, 2024

New comment by Gare in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

Gare — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:33:47 +0000

Indeed, thanks for the correction

New comment by Gare in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

Gare — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:30:03 +0000

EU requires them too